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Oxford Heritage Walks Book 1 Oxford Heritage Walks Book 1 Oxford Castle to St Giles’ by Malcolm Graham (illustrated by Edith Gollnast, cartography by Alun Jones) Chapter 1 – Oxford Castle to St Michael’s Street The walk begins within Oxford Castle, at the entrance to Oxford Castle Unlocked, where you can visit historic sites and buildings which were largely hidden from view until Oxford Prison closed in 1996. Oxford Preservation Trust created this heritage interpretation centre (2004-6, Panter Hudspeth and Richard Griffiths) as part of the successful restoration and redevelopment of Oxford Castle by Trevor Osborne Property Group and Oxfordshire County Council.1 Standing here, you can travel back through a thousand years of history and there is a time-line on the ground to help you. The motte or mound behind you was part of the motte and bailey castle built by Robert d’Oilly in 1071 just five years after the Norman Conquest. A ten-sided stone keep had replaced a wooden one by the 13th century and, although the ruined tower was demolished in 1650, its foundations still lie beneath the grass on the top of the mound.2 A visit to the mound offers excellent views over Oxford – imagine how much more you would have seen from the tall keep – and you can also go down into the castle’s 13th century vaulted well-chamber. St George’s Tower, massively built of rubble stone, is a remarkable defensive structure, rising in four slightly receding stages with a later diagonally set staircase in one corner. It is traditionally dated to the founding or re-founding of the Church of St George’s in the Castle in 1074, but it sits uncomfortably close to the mound and is now thought to have been built in c.1020 as a watchtower strengthening the town’s western approaches.3 The tower of St Michael at the Northgate Church, which we shall see later in the walk, had the same role in the northern defences. 4 Oxford Castle is best known for King Stephen's siege of the Empress Matilda in December 1142 which ended when she escaped over the wall during a snowstorm, dressed in white, and made her way to Wallingford. The castle was 1 Oxford City Council – hereafter Oxf CC 01/02201/LBV; Oxford Castle Heritage Project (2004), 4-5 2 Alan Crossley, Victoria History of the County of Oxford, vol. 4: the City of Oxford – hereafter VCH Oxon iv (1979), 296-7 3 Christopher Hibbert, The Encyclopaedia of Oxford (1988) – hereafter Oxf Encyc, 393-4; Julian Munby, Oxford Castle medieval and later buildings (2000), 2; information from Brian Durham 4 Brian Durham, Oxford’s northern defences: archaeological studies, 1971-1982, Oxoniensia 48 (1983), 14,34; www.imagesofengland 245996 (ST GEORGES TOWER, ST GEORGES CHAPEL CRYPT AND D WING INCLUDING THE DEBTORS TOWER, Non Civil Parish - 1369490 | Historic England) 1 held for King John by Fawkes de Breauté in 1216 when it was besieged by baronial forces.5 Shire courts and assizes were held within the castle at Shire Hall until the Black Assize of 1577 when gaol fever broke out during the trial of Rowland Jenks, ‘a saucy foul-mouthed bookseller.’ Three hundred people, including the Lord Chief Baron and the High Sheriff, are said to have died and subsequent courts were held in the Town Hall until 1843.6 The castle was used as a gaol as early as the 12th century and, although it was allowed to decay from the mid 14th century, the prison was retained.7 During the Civil War, the Castle was garrisoned by the Royalists, and Parliamentary prisoners were housed there in unhealthy conditions which were blamed on Smith, the gaoler.8 In 1649, the Parliamentarians strengthened the castle’s defences only to destroy this new work two years later.9 The gaol continued to be housed in a building next to St George’s Tower where John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement, visited and ministered to the prisoners in 1738.10 The prison reformer John Howard criticized the small, overcrowded and verminous prison in 1777 and the county magistrates built a new County Gaol between 1785 and 1805 under the supervision of William Blackburn, the pioneering prison designer. High perimeter walls were built to prevent prisoners from escaping. You will notice that part of the late 18th century prison wall at this point has been taken down now that access, rather than security, is the priority. The two storey stone range in front of you (c.1795-1805, William Blackburn & Daniel Harris) was the debtors’ wing built after the completion of the felons’ and convicts’ wing. This range, later known as D Wing, originally had a vaulted ground floor which was partially open to the outside to improve air circulation; an external balcony gave access to part of the first floor on this side of the building. The circular debtors’ tower, furthest from St George’s Tower, retains its original cell doors and partitions. Prisoners erected all these buildings under the watchful eye of their gaoler, Daniel Harris (c.1760- 1840), who was also a builder, civil engineer and architect. He had strong archaeological interests and ensured that the Norman capitals from the crypt of St George’s Church were rebuilt in an atmospheric crypt beneath D Wing.11 Walk towards New Road, noticing the juxtaposition of the castle mound and Nuffield College tower and spire built in the 1950s. Turn right beyond cycle racks, passing between the stone-built former Governor’s House (1847-8, Benjamin Ferrey) and a modern building (2004-6, Sir Jeremy Dixon), which provides restaurant and hotel accommodation with a roof garden on the site of 20th century prison warders’ houses. Emerging into the paved avenue beside Old 5 VCH Oxon iv, 296 6 Oxf Encyc, 108 7 VCH Oxon iv, 297-8 8 Edward Wirley, The Prisoner’s report (1642), passim; Edmund Chillenden, The inhumanity of the King’s Prison-Keeper at Oxford (1643), passim 9 VCH Oxon iv, 297-8 10 T W Squires, In West Oxford (1928), 61 11 Oxford Archaeology, Oxford Castle: a Heritage Survey (1996), 9-10; Munby, op.cit., 7; Mark Davies and Catherine Robinson, A Towpath Walk in Oxford (2001), 76-7; John Rhodes, Oxford Castle Conservation Plan (1999), 58 2 County Hall, you have a fine view, away to your right, of the castellated prison frontage, now the entrance to the Oxford Malmaison Hotel. By the 1840s, the gaol had become too small and A Wing (1852-6, H.J. Underwood & J.C. Buckler) behind this frontage provided additional cells on three levels. The design followed the ‘separate’ system pioneered at Pentonville where prisoners in solitary confinement could reflect on the consequences of their crimes.12 The closure of Oxford Prison, first suggested in 1946, led to the brilliant, if improbable, conversion of these premises into luxury hotel accommodation (2004-6, Architects Design Partnership with Jestico & White).13 Turn left up the avenue leading to New Road, noting on your right the castellated flanking wing wall to Old County Hall which terminates in a tiny turret. The blocked doorway in the wall originally led to a men’s urinal.14 New Road was new in 1769-70, built by the Botley and Newland Turnpike Trust between Castle Street and Hollybush Row to link up with an improved Botley Road and the newly-built Swinford Bridge. The Norman castle had overlaid part of Saxon Oxford, obstructing the western exit from the city, and New Road cut through the castle bailey on its way to Fisher Row. Christ Church owned much of the castle site at that time and ensured that the mound was retained ‘as an ornament to that District, and as a venerable Monument of Antiquity.’ The college successfully defended the mound again in 1848 when railway contractors wanted to plunder it for building materials.15 The portion of the castle bailey north of New Road became the Coal Wharf of the Oxford Canal which reached Oxford on January 1st, 1790. The canal brought cheaper coal to the city and the arrival of the first boats was accompanied by church bells and bands. The wharf closed in 1937 and Nuffield College now occupies most of the site. Two gargantuan stone gate pillars opposite marked the entrance to the wharf but now lead to St Peter’s College car park. Beyond the car park, you can see the portico and side elevation of Canal House (1827-9, Richard Tawney) which is now the Master’s Lodgings for St Peter’s College.16 Turn right up New Road, noting the fine pavement which was a by-product of the Castle development. Sir Charles Oman dismissed Old County Hall (1840-1, John Plowman) as ‘quite the most abominable pseudo-Gothic assize court in all England, composed of mock-Norman arches, pepper box turrets, meaningless machicolation, arrow-slits in inaccessible places, and large round topped 12 VCH Oxon iv, 299; Oxford Archaeology, op.cit., (1996), 12-13; www.imagesofengland 246000 (FRONT RANGE WITH ENTRANCE INCLUDING A WING AND LINK TO WING WITH FORMER CHAPEL, Non Civil Parish - 1369492 | Historic England) 13 Oxford Archaeology, Oxford Castle, Canal and College (2008), 17; Oxford Preservation Trust, 19th Report to 27.6.1946, 8 14 Ordnance Survey 1:500 Oxon XXXIII.15.21 (1876) 15 Julian Munby and Hugh Walton, The Building of New Road, Oxoniensia 55 (1990), 123-30 16 H.J. Compton, The Oxford Canal (1976), 39, 145; Davies and Robinson, op.cit., (2001), 56-61; www.imagesofengland 245149 (Canal House, Oxford - 1046618 | Historic England) 3 windows.’17 The building is now listed as a ‘delightful Neo-Norman fortress with Georgian-type windows in Gothic surrounds’ and it is frequently photographed.18 Beside the gateways and the main door, notice the stone piers topped by cast iron fasces and modern, traditionally designed lanterns.
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